PaulRB:
Coding your sketch to use the max chip with common anode displays will be quite tricky, unless you are already good at "bit twiddling". I don't know of any good example code on the forum or Web, so come back to this thread when you need some support with that.
Fine with me - don't mind the exercise as I have done some playing around with the matrix arrays. In regard to which, I would be surprised if Marco had not done this already as he certainly has with the matrices.